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All that was missing were shouts of “food fight!” to turn last night’s performance of Richard Wagner’s TANNHAUSER the first of the Met’s season into a version of National Lampoon’s Night at the Opera, as climate activists interrupted the house debut of the great baritone Christian Gerhaher, and audience members traded barbs with the demonstrators, threatening the company’s determination that “the show must go on.” ....